Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 46 (Nov. 18-24, 2006), pp. 4795-4800 (6 pages) Fakir Mohan Senapati's literary device of using satire served a dual purpose. It was a strategy that made ...

Fakir Mohan Senapati's literary device of using satire served a dual purpose. It was a strategy that made possible a veiled criticism of the colonial state and the norms it imposed but was also an ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Marry needle-sharp style with lethal funniness and you’re up for addiction. A drug taken through the brain not the vein, you understand ...

Like all literary panels titled so vaguely, the definition of the theme of ‘Satire’ took up several minutes. But fortunately, that debate didn’t occur until the end of the session, near and during the ...

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Turtle Point. 470 pp. Paperback, $17.50Like so many of the modernist works he teaches, George Stade, a professor of 20th-century literature at Columbia, has produced 500 pages that never quite settle ...

For literary translators, nothing is more challenging and yet perhaps more inspiring than texts shaped by humor, as they require a double translation: a linguistic as well as a cultural one. Global ...

Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with them ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's been one of those weeks for Malcolm Turnbull. Stumbling into a royal commission into the banks and copping flak for feeble ...

Thank heavens for the VHS junkie, the VCR jockey, and the other nonprofessional, copyright-flouting cultural archivists preserving the not-so-recent, videotaped past on the internet. In the highly ...